9. Two Ways into Complexity

Abstract

The dynamic hypothesis (DH) about cognition has often been presented as an alternative to the widely popular computational hypothesis (CH) in cognitive science. While the theoretical distance that separates these two approaches may seem to be significant, there are reasons, we argue, to reconsider the relationship between the dynamical and computational ways of understanding the cognition.

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